Re: Re: gardenia buds!

Take them outside and spray them w/ kelp.  The dreaded spider mites will be gone!

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
Sent: 5/6/2004 8:20:13 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenia buds!

> sorry to change the subject, but plants in the house....

> I started dahlias in pots indoors.  Was just about to move them to FL rm to

> transition them and I think they have spider mites.  Webs all over.  Guess

> I've been too busy outside to notice.  They are supposed to be for sale

> may22, if I spray them now with ?  and get them some air outside (in and out

> to harden), do you think they'll be ok by then?

> 

> Kitty

> 

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Andrea H" <hodgesaa@islc.net>

> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>

> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:05 PM

> Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenia buds!

> 

> 

> > It would probably be too cold in the winter, but the Gardenia radicans

> does

> > pretty well as a house plant in a bright window. Give it a shot. it will

> > fill the whole house with the scent and trust me, the real thing is a

> > thousand times better smelling than any lotion, cream, or candle I've ever

> > come across.

> >

> >

> > Andrea H

> > Beaufort, SC

> >

> >

> > ----- Original Message ----- 

> > From: "F M Ferrari" <fm4re@swbell.net>

> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>

> > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 10:35 AM

> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] gardenia buds!

> >

> >

> > > Gardenia! Yes a wonderful smell! The other day when I got my facial, she

> > > used gardenia essential oil in my facial massage. I think I must get

> > > one! I wonder how they do in Oklahoma? Fran

> > >

> > >

> > > pdickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:Pam,

> > > When I was in Houston last week my sister had 4 big plants and they were

> > all

> > > starting to bloom... in a couple of days I bet they were covered. I love

> > > gardenias the very most of any scent. We have one that grows in the

> indoor

> > > pool at the YMCA... I help them with the plants so I get to take a bloom

> > and

> > > put it in my pocket when they are blooming. The smell transports me to a

> > > wonderful place!

> > > Tricia

> > > ----- Original Message ----- 

> > > From:

> > > To:

> > > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 9:44 PM

> > > Subject: [CHAT] gardenia buds!

> > >

> > >

> > > > #65279;Well the gardenia has buds on it now! It's a small one

> (Radicans)

> > > in

> > > > a

> > > > pot, but it has at least ten or twelve buds on it! I'm so excited.

> > > Mother

> > > > had

> > > > one as a houseplant that she started from a cutting in Richmond (where

> > my

> > > > brother

> > > > &I were born) and by the time I was a teenager it totally filled the

> big

> > > > double

> > > > window in the front of the house. When it was blooming the whole

> > > downstairs

> > > > smelled

> > > > like Heaven. I've wanted one ever since. Splurged on one this March. I

> > > watch

> > > > those

> > > > buds fatten every every day now and it's the first thing I check

> besides

> > > Sugar

> > > > when

> > > > I get home. This will give my homemade potpourri a whole new

> dimension,

> > I

> > > > can't

> > > > wait!!

> > > >

> > > > Pam Evans

> > > > Kemp, TX

> > > > zone 8A

> > > >

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